Structurally fused heterocycles encompassing a centerpiece of benzotropane are significant scaffolds with a plethora of promising biological activities,but such molecular architectures pose a long-standing daunting sy...Structurally fused heterocycles encompassing a centerpiece of benzotropane are significant scaffolds with a plethora of promising biological activities,but such molecular architectures pose a long-standing daunting synthetic challenge.Herein,we reported a highly efficient asymmetric cyclodearomatization of 2-nitrobenzofurans with cyclic azomethine ylides by employing bifunctional phosphonium salts as phase-transfer catalysts.Under optimized reaction conditions,a diverse array of polycyclic benzofused tropane derivatives with four contiguous 4°/3°stereocenters were readily synthesized in both high yields and diastereoselectivities with up to>99%ee.The practicality and utility of this protocol were further demonstrated by the scaled-up reaction and facile elaborations.Moreover,preliminary investigations into their antitumor activities were also presented.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(21971165,21921002,81630101)the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2018YFA0903500)+1 种基金the“1000-Youth Talents Program”(YJ201702)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities。
文摘Structurally fused heterocycles encompassing a centerpiece of benzotropane are significant scaffolds with a plethora of promising biological activities,but such molecular architectures pose a long-standing daunting synthetic challenge.Herein,we reported a highly efficient asymmetric cyclodearomatization of 2-nitrobenzofurans with cyclic azomethine ylides by employing bifunctional phosphonium salts as phase-transfer catalysts.Under optimized reaction conditions,a diverse array of polycyclic benzofused tropane derivatives with four contiguous 4°/3°stereocenters were readily synthesized in both high yields and diastereoselectivities with up to>99%ee.The practicality and utility of this protocol were further demonstrated by the scaled-up reaction and facile elaborations.Moreover,preliminary investigations into their antitumor activities were also presented.
